Ice-cream-cone holder



July 27,1926.

' R. SCHARPHUIS ICE CREAM GONE HOLDER Filfed May 26, 1925 Patented July 27, 1926.

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Application filed my as, 1925. Serial so. am

The object of this invention is to provide a'holder for the universallyknown ice cream cone of commerce which shall enable the ice cream merchant to take the empty cone from the stack, fill it with ice cream, and set it before the customer without touching the cone with his hand, While the customer can grasp the cone directly and convey it to his mouth without lifting the holder from the counter 'or table or tray on which it is set before him. The holder comprises a conical receiver which may or may not be formed on the same angle as the ice cream cone but conforms theretoto sufliciently permit it to grasp the cone lightly, has a supporting base, which may or may not be separable from the receiver, is open at the bottom or smaller end as well as at the top, and is shorter than the cone and truncated at such a plane that the cone will protrude through the open smaller end so th'at'when the holder is placed on the counter or table or tray, the

cone will be freed from the receiver so that it canbe grasped by the customer and lifted Without raising the receiver. The invention will be explained more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing in 1 which an embodiment of the invention is illustrated andin which:

Figure 1 is a .view in elevation showing a single holder with its base and the cone raised therefrom. I

Figure is a'view in elevation showing a stack of cones. inverted with the receiver partly in section, and, in broken lines, the

receiver about'to be applied to a stack of I cones.

Figure 3'shows a cone and receiver in elevation about to be applied to a base whichis shown partly in section.

Figure 4 is a view in elevation, with the receiver and the base partly in section, showing a cone 1n place in a holder in which the receiver and the base are formed together.

Figure 5 is a top view of a tray with a plurality of holders secured thereon, and a Figure-6 is a view of the same in sectional elevation, with cones in place in the holders. As shown in Figures 1 and 3, the improved holder'com rises a conical receiver aand a base b which is formed with a socket c.

1 :The receivera is a truncated cone which has Qan axial len "h "shorter-than the ice cream cone d, is 0 such angular. formation as to "conform substantially, althou h not necessarily to make contact at all points, with the I lifted by the customer as be brought together, and is open at its smaller enda, as well as at its larger end a so as to permit the apex of the cone (1 to extend through and beyond the smaller end while the upper or largerend of the cone extends beyond the larger end a of the receiver. 1

As is well understood, the cones d, as de-s livered to the ice cream vendor, are nested or stacked, as shown in Figure 2. When the stack is inverted and rests upon the counter or box. bottom, and a cone is to be withdrawn, filled with ice cream, and delivered to the customer, the receiver a is inverted over the stack, as shown in Figure 2, and is pressed downward lightly upon the topmost conewhichit grasps gently. With the fingers of one hand of the. vendorstill in contact only with the receiver a, it is then lifted from the stack, carryin' with it the topmost cone, and is then turne to'upright position when the cone is filled with ice cream, as indicated'in Figure 3. It is then, in this embodiment of the invention, applied to the base I; with its sustaining socket a and as the apex of the cone comes in contact with the bottom b of the base, the cone is pushed upward and freed from the "receiver a, as shown in Figure l, so that it can be grasped readil by the customer.

Alt ough for convenience in handling it may be preferable to make the receiver a separate from the .base I), nevertheless, as shown in Figure 4, the receiver a may formed with the base b the bottom of' which, in this instance, is formed with a opening 6 through which the a ex of the cone 6 may protrude when the ho der is applied to the to most cone of the stack and, when the hol er is set upon the table or counter or tray, the apex. of, the cone will contact with the top of the counter ortable or tray and the cone beraised thereby in the receiver in position to 20 grasped and ore.

In the embodiment of theinvention shown in Figures 5 and 6, the base-b.is-shown as a tray to which are secured. several sockets 0 each of which may support a receiver a,

ment of the invention each receiver is applied to the topmost-cone of the stack, as

110. be filled, and is apetc a on the tray so formed as described with reference to "ures 1, 2 and 3. In theuse of this emho that the ice cream cones and holders can be presented to several customers from the single tray.

I claim as my invention:

1. An ice cream cone holder comprising in combination a tray, the said tray having a substantially flat base and an upstanding truncated conical member forming with the base, a socket thereon, and a truncated re- 1 ceiver fitting snugly in said socket and projec'ting upwardly therefrom, the said receiver being of a size and shape to closely embrace the upper portion of a cone.

2. In an ice cream cone holder, a base, and

a truncated open ended receiver associated This specification signed this 18th day of May A. 1925.

ROLF SCHARPHUIS. 

